13/10/2026
🇬🇧 PIPOL 13
Congress of the EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis
Introducing The PIPOL 13 gazette
by Pénélope Fay, Blog manager
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Following the release of the presentation for PIPOL 13, the congress of the EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis—to be held in Brussels on 10 and 11 July 2027 under the title “To Say It All?”—the first issue of The PIPOL 13 gazette is on its way.
Each issue will be an opportunity to engage with the theme, leaving its full exploration for the Congress itself.
Let us lift a corner of the veil and make a confession: while the theme is a territory to explore, it is not uncharted ground.
There are already some Milestones, to use Lacan’s term, marking out paths. This first section will offer as many perspectives as there are authors.
These texts will help orient us, as will the Guidelines for the Parallel Sessions, our second section, which will guide the writing of clinical case presentations.
We first find our way into a theme through the questions we ask ourselves—some simple or naïve, others impossible to articulate, obscure or complex. The Question Marks section will try to regroup these questions. Once put into words, they can open up avenues of enquiry and unsettle what seems self-evident.
Then there are the texts themselves—the body of writing we draw on to nourish our thinking. In Read by…, contributors will take a passage from the bibliography and offer a brief interpretation. The Detail will bring together clinical and theoretical fragments, along with discoveries from the arts and literature: little glimmers of light that catch our attention.
Finally, PIPOL is open to the world, and what happens in it interests us. The world concerns us [nous regarde]; we, in turn, look at it. This will be the aim of The World, the section bearing its name.
What goes into shaping a newsletter? Are there guidelines to follow?
If there is an editorial direction, it takes its cue from the subject itself: to touch on and question this Say It All?, whose question mark leaves things open.
The authors we invite are asked to “put something of themselves into it”—to write in a way that lets us hear their voices and discover their points of view.
That is our hope. And our starting point!
